Picture Imperfect
Author | : Anne Maxwell |
Publisher | : Liverpool University Press |
Total Pages | : 305 |
Release | : 2010-03-11 |
ISBN-10 | : 9781837642083 |
ISBN-13 | : 1837642087 |
Rating | : 4/5 (087 Downloads) |
Download or read book Picture Imperfect written by Anne Maxwell and published by Liverpool University Press. This book was released on 2010-03-11 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Analyses the photographs that helped strengthen as well as bring down the Eugenics Movement. Concentrating mainly on developments in Britain, the USA and Nazi Germany, this book argues that photography, as the most powerful visual medium of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, was vital to the Eugenics Movement's success.